CNN&#8217;s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour said this week that she prepared for a trip to the U.S. as if she were going to North Korea.
The British-Iranian journalist, 67, said she was &#8220;afraid&#8221; to travel to the land of the free to give an address at Harvard University last month.
&#8220;I have to tell you, when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago last week, I must say, I was afraid,&#8221; Amanpour said Wednesday on her podcast “The Ex Files,” which she hosts with her ex-husband, James Rubin, a former State Department official.
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🚨CNN hack journo Christiane Amanpour compares coming to the US to North Korea:
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&#8220;I&#8217;m a foreigner, I don&#8217;t have a green card, I&#8217;m not an American citizen, I&#8217;m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,&#8221; she said.
Amanpour has previously reported from war zones, including during the Gulf and Bosnian wars.
&#8220;I took a burner phone, Jamie, imagine that,&#8221; Amanpour told her ex-husband during the podcast.
She said she did not take her regular cell phone or her iPad, and she had &#8220;nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers&#8221; including those for her assistant, her ex-husband, her son, and a CNN lawyer.
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&#8220;I was really afraid. I&#8217;d even talked to the CNN security person, because I&#8217;ve heard that many, including British citizens, are being stopped at the border and questioned for hours and hours and hours,&#8221; Amanpour said.
However, she admitted she encountered no such issues on her trip.
“So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” she said.
Amanpour previously sparked controversy when she compared the Trump administration to Nazis in 2020.
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This is ⁦⁦@camanpour on⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ comparing Trump’s tenure to Nazi Germany. How the hell is this sort of prejudice tolerated on mainstream media? 
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&#8220;This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,&#8221; she said at the beginning of her CNN show days after the 2020 presidential election. Kristallnacht or the &#8220;Night of Broken Glass&#8221; was a 1938 Nazi attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
&#8220;It was the Nazis&#8217; warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth,&#8221; Amanpour continued. &#8220;After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.&#8221;
Jewish advocacy groups criticized Amanpour&#8217;s comments, one <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-under-fire-segment-comparing-trumps-tenure-nazi-germany-1547258" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> her to &#8220;stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda.&#8221;

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CBS News and Stations President Wendy McMahon announced on Monday that she is resigning over disagreements with the network as CBS&#8217; parent company, Paramount, looks to settle a massive lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump.
McMahon said her time with the network was &#8220;a privilege and joy,&#8221; but added that recent months have been &#8220;challenging,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/cbs-news-chief-steps-down-over-trump-tensions-rcna207700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. Her resignation comes as Paramount moves closer to settling a $20 billion lawsuit brought by Trump, which alleges that &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris to cover up her poor answer while she was running for president. Paramount&#8217;s controlling shareholder and chair, Shari Redstone, wants to settle the lawsuit as she also <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-28/behind-the-60-minutes-upheaval-a-big-merger-seeking-approval" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks</a> the Trump administration&#8217;s approval to sell her company to the entertainment company, Skydance.
&#8220;It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward,&#8221; McMahon wrote in a memo to CBS News staff. &#8220;It’s time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership.&#8221;
McMahon, who took over as CBS News and Stations president in August 2023, put herself in the crosshairs of Paramount executives with her support of former longtime &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; executive producer Bill Owens, who resigned last month, citing a lack of control over the direction of the stalwart news program, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-trump-wendy-mcmahon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The leadership at Paramount was reportedly growing anxious with how the show reported on the Trump administration.
Redstone also slammed CBS News leadership last October after it reprimanded “CBS Mornings” anchor Tony Dokoupil for asking Left-wing activist Ta-Nehisi Coates tough questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict. McMahon informed Dokoupil that he had violated &#8220;the preproduction process where questions are run through Race and Culture and Standards and Practice.&#8221; Redstone <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/business/media/ta-nehisi-coates-cbs-interview-shari-redstone.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said publicl</a>y that CBS News&#8217; decision to reprimand the anchor was &#8220;a mistake.&#8221;
“I think we all agree that this was not handled correctly,” Redstone said.
McMahon will continue to work as CBS News president for a transition period that will last &#8220;a few weeks,&#8221; according to George Cheeks, the chief executive of CBS. McMahon will be replaced by Tom Cibrowski, who recently joined CBS News after working for ABC News for 30 years in multiple roles, and Jennifer Mitchell, who currently &#8220;oversees 27 CBS-owned stations and manages stations operations in 17 markets.&#8221;

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Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of the CBS show “60 Minutes,” has officially stepped down from the role, saying he no longer felt he had full editorial control over the program.
Owens has been with CBS since he started as a summer intern in 1988 and was in charge of “60 Minutes” since 2019. Now with his resignation, the TV exec says the job has changed to the point where he can no longer do it the way he wants to.
“Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience,” Owens wrote in a final memo that was obtained by <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/media/60-minutes-producer-bill-owens-quits-under-pressure-from-trumps-cbs-lawsuit/">the New York Post</a>.
“So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” he added.
Per the outlet, Owens wrote that “‘60 Minutes’ will continue to cover the new administration, as we will report on future administrations.”
“The show is too important to the country. It has to continue, just not with me as the executive producer,” he wrote.
CBS News President Wendy McMahon also shared praise for Owens, writing in a separate memo, “Standing behind what he stood for was an easy decision for me, and I never took for granted that he did the same for me.”
His resignation comes at a time when CBS is facing legal pressure on several fronts, including a $10 billion lawsuit from President Donald Trump.
Per a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-cbs-news-for-10-billion-over-kamala-60-minutes-interview-edits">report</a> from The Daily Wire, Trump is suing CBS and “60 Minutes” for allegedly manipulating footage from an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign. The suit claims the network edited her answers to make her appear more polished and to boost the Democrat’s chances, which Trump says held sway with voters.
CBS reps insist that the interview was edited according to standard practices and was not politically biased. But despite their claims, the lawsuit is ongoing. CBS’ parent company, Paramount, is reportedly considering a settlement, especially as it seeks a potential merger with Skydance Media.
One insider told the Post that CBS “is not the home of the investigative journalism of Mike Wallace anymore,” calling the show a “mouthpiece” for the Left.
“Every allegation of bias only tilts one way and it’s always in the favor of the Democrats,” the source said.
Owens didn’t explicitly say his resignation had anything to do with the lawsuit or other internal issues, but the timing has the public questioning his motives for leaving. It’s all part of a major shakeup of mainstream media inspired in large part by the election of Trump and the people’s desire to stop being manipulated by left-leaning outlets masquerading as non-partisan.

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A conservative media watchdog has a new top priority — defunding NPR and PBS.
The Media Research Center (MRC) is leading a push to defund both public media outlets, urging President Donald Trump, congressional leaders, and governors to strip taxpayer subsidies to these &#8220;far-left media outlets,&#8221; the group revealed exclusively to The Daily Wire.
The watchdog urged the Trump administration to include the &#8220;complete defunding&#8221; of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its affiliates, PBS and NPR, in a rescission package that could soon be sent to Congress.
&#8220;Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a media entity that has outlived its original purpose and refuses to operate in a transparent manner,&#8221; the MRC wrote in its letter to Trump.
The watchdog is calling on the CEOs of NPR and PBS to subject themselves to public audits and asking members of Congress to refuse to meet with their lobbyists until those audits are done.
The MRC is also calling on congressional leaders to repeal the legislation that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Finally, the group is calling on state governors and federal agencies to halt all discretionary grants to PBS and NPR until the outlets are audited.
A coalition of critics joined the MRC in signing letters to elected officials, including Seth Dillon, owner of the Babylon Bee; Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project; Steven Ertelt, editor at LifeNews.com; and Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights.
&#8220;This action is in concert with your historic promise and rapid delivery of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government,&#8221; the coalition wrote to Trump.
The group argued that the &#8220;original justification&#8221; for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting &#8220;no longer holds.&#8221;
&#8220;In today’s media-rich environment, Americans have unlimited access to news, entertainment, and educational programming,&#8221; they wrote in their letter to Trump.
&#8220;NPR’s and PBS’s demonstrable, documented bias further erodes CPB’s credibility,&#8221; the group wrote. &#8220;NPR’s audience overwhelmingly identifies as liberal, reinforcing the reality that public broadcasting is not a neutral service but a taxpayer-funded ideological platform. Americans should not be forced to finance a network that caters to one side of the political spectrum.&#8221;
Dan Schneider, vice president of the MRC, told The Daily Wire that defunding PBS and NPR is his organization&#8217;s &#8220;top priority right now.&#8221;
The goal is to &#8220;eliminate every dime of taxpayer money that subsidizes these liberal media behemoths,&#8221; Schneider said.
&#8220;This is the most focused and aggressive takedown these outlets have ever faced. It may be the last, best chance taxpayers will ever have to unburden themselves from these leftist propaganda outlets once and for all,&#8221; he said.

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When I studied journalism at the University of Maryland, we were trained to recognize “yellow journalism” — sensational reporting that sacrifices truth for attention. Today, American media has been overtaken by a new, more dangerous trend: “red journalism,” where government propaganda has replaced honest reporting. The reason? The 2012 <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smith-Mundt Modernization Act</a>, a law quietly slipped into the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ31/PLAW-118publ31.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Defense Authorization Act</a> under President Obama. This legislation lifted bans on U.S.-funded propaganda meant for foreign audiences, allowing government and legacy media to collude on delivering propaganda to the American public. 
Ostensibly designed to counter “misinformation”, this amendment has allowed the government to weaponize our press, turning it from a watchdog into a megaphone for political agendas and false narratives. Once a pillar of democracy, legacy media has become a lap dog of the government, pushing narratives that serve those in power, not the truth.
Under Obama, media outlets went from scrutinizing policies, events, and politicians to uncritically parroting government talking points. When the Affordable Care Act’s rollout tanked, legacy outlets downplayed the issues and glossed over glaring government missteps. This disturbing pattern of sanitizing the news in favor of political spin has continued, feeding Americans one-sided narratives disguised as journalism.
Under Biden, this alignment has intensified. Critical issues like Covid, his cognitive decline, border security, inflation, and disastrous foreign policy decisions are routinely softened, outright ignored or blatantly lied about. The Afghanistan withdrawal, a deadly debacle, saw the press repeating official statements that minimized or ignored the administration&#8217;s failures. Real, investigative reporting was left to independent journalists and international sources.
This propaganda machine is especially clear in election coverage. Legacy media&#8217;s bias has shifted from subtle to brazen. Kamala Harris received glowing, uncritical coverage that boosted her image, while Donald Trump was forced to endure unsubstantiated accusations and dangerous rhetoric. From hiding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal to glossing over President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline, legacy media has shown they are not just biased but actively complicit in shaping political outcomes to favor the administration. This is not journalism — it’s election interference and public manipulation.
A free press is the bedrock of democracy, a crucial check on government power. When the media stops questioning and starts amplifying the official line, the public loses access to objective information and becomes vulnerable to manipulation. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act has turned American media from truth-tellers into mouthpieces for those in power, destroying public trust and democracy itself.
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Moving forward, our new Congress must make it a priority to repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act and hold news outlets legally accountable for factually accurate, transparently sourced reporting. This is not an assault on free speech; it’s a demand for journalistic integrity. Our nation deserves a media landscape free from government influence, and repealing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 would be a significant move toward that goal. Congress must seize this opportunity to restore the boundaries that protect a free and independent press and, by extension, preserve the public’s trust in the information they receive.
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Elicia Brand is the founder and president of <a href="https://armyofparents.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army of Parents</a> in Loudoun County, VA.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Multiple legacy media outlets that covered the FBI&#8217;s report on violent crime going down in 2022 have ignored the bureau&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-stealth-edits-crime-stats-obliterates-democrat-and-media-talking-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major revision,</a> which shows that violent crime increased that year.
In September 2023, the FBI claimed that data showed violent crime decreased by 2.1% in 2022 compared to 2021. A report from <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearInvestigations</a> (RCI) on Wednesday, however, revealed that the FBI &#8220;quietly revised&#8221; those numbers to show that violent crime increased by 4.5% in 2022. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/23/violent-crime-declined-2023-fbi-report/75349314007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/us/fbi-crime-data-murders.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/16/fbi-crime-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, and the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fbi-crime-report-violence-property-carjacking-murder-fa7c6e3879d3bf16f93bdfa42683b100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> covered the FBI&#8217;s report last year, but as of Thursday afternoon, none of those legacy outlets have published any reports — or provided any notes on previous stories — after the FBI revised its data to show that violent crime increased.
The FBI also tried to keep the revision under wraps as RCI only &#8220;discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website.&#8221;
&#8220;But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI’s new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year,&#8221; John R. Lott wrote for RCI.
The FBI&#8217;s 2023 report has been used by Democrats and the legacy media to counter former President Donald Trump&#8217;s focus on violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration. Trump was even &#8220;fact-checked&#8221; by ABC News moderator David Muir during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris when Trump said that violent crime had gone up under his opponent&#8217;s watch.
&#8220;Crime here is up and through the roof. Despite their fraudulent claims they make, crime in this country is through the roof,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/search?q=fbi%20crime%20data&amp;src=typed_query" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during the September 10 ABC News debate. &#8220;And we have a new form of crime. It&#8217;s called migrant crime, and it&#8217;s happening at levels that nobody thought possible.&#8221;
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Last year, the AP hailed the FBI&#8217;s report on violent crime stats as a return to pre-COVID pandemic numbers. The Washington Post article included a quote from a crime analyst who called the report “substantially improved” over the FBI&#8217;s 2021 report, claiming the 2022 report added “a level of certainty that we didn’t have” in 2021.
According to the FBI&#8217;s revised data, there were 1,699 more murders nationally in 2022 than in 2021. The revised data also showed 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults. Lott told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-quietly-updates-crime-data-show-big-jump-violence-under-biden-harris-admin-shocking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> on Wednesday that &#8220;for a year after the 2022 data was put out, we were having headlines, news articles after news articles saying, &#8216;Violent crime is falling, people mistakenly or erroneously believe that it&#8217;s increasing.'&#8221;
&#8220;And, you know, and they were relying on this data,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But you don&#8217;t see any corrections in the news, saying, ‘Oops, the FBI data that we relied on was wrong, that rather than a drop, there was actually an increase that had occurred.’&#8221;

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Following the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, many in the legacy media were forced to admit that Republican VP candidate JD Vance won the night against Democrat nominee Tim Walz.
While many in the media declared Walz the winner, others acknowledged Vance’s grasp of the issues and Walz’s shaky performance.
Jonathan Karl of ABC, for example, said &#8220;Walz did seem unsteady and, frankly, what I saw in Walz is somebody who has not faced questions on a national stage.”
“In contrast, JD Vance was very smooth. He took the arguments &#8230; to Kamala Harris,” Karl added.
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&#8220;Walz did seem unsteady and, frankly, what I saw in Walz is somebody who has not faced questions on a national stage,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jonkarl</a>.
&#8220;In contrast, JD Vance was VERY smooth. He took the arguments &#8230; to Kamala Harris.&#8221;
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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1841325574578409490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Abby Phillip of CNN had a similar comment, saying &#8220;JD Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches — and he did. &#8230; Walz did not seem prepared for it.&#8221;
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Even known Trump hater <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abbydphillip</a> of CNN admits JD Vance CRUSHED Tampon Tim tonight&#8230;
&#8220;JD Vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches&#8230; and he did. Tim Walz DID NOT seem prepared for it.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/1W91s9qkjP">pic.twitter.com/1W91s9qkjP</a>
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CNN’s Jake Tapper also said after the debate: “If one were just going by traditional debate scoring &#8230; JD Vance would’ve won the night. He just was more polished, he was more clean, he pivoted more effectively.”
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ABC’s Linsey Davis compared Walz’s performance to that of President Joe Biden’s in June, which led to Biden dropping out of the race.
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“It kind of reminded me of the June 27th debate when Kamala Harris that night said of Joe Biden ‘it was a slow start but a strong finish,’” Davis said, before adding that “JD Vance needed to come away as that humble, likable guy from Hillbilly Elegy — [and] it seemed like he did.&#8221;
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ABC&#8217;s Linsey Davis says Walz&#8217;s debate performance was reminiscent of Biden&#8217;s humiliating performance in June.
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Tom Llamas with NBC was forced to ask Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) following the debate: “Does Gov. Walz have a problem with the truth?&#8221;
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NBC: &#8220;This is the 3rd or 4th time that he&#8217;s said something that hasn&#8217;t been true&#8230; Does Governor Walz have a problem with the truth?&#8221;
Kamala surrogate Amy Klobuchar: &#8220;No.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/HGYZmcGI37">pic.twitter.com/HGYZmcGI37</a>
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CNN’s John King also noted that Vance won on the most important issues of the campaign: the economy and immigration.
“On those two issues, Vance carried it,” King said, after noting that Vice President Kamala Harris is polling at a deficit on those same issues.
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KING: &#8220;Vance carried it&#8221; on the top two issues of the race: the economy and immigration. <a href="https://t.co/vILQsYBgRs">pic.twitter.com/vILQsYBgRs</a>
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Print media also had to hand it to Vance, with POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/01/vance-walz-vp-debate-tonight/vibe-check-vance-is-doing-well-00182085?_nlid=CUvHsBzNqY&amp;_nhids=1EyEf5o2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>, “Vibe check: JD Vance is doing really well tonight.”
One Democrat strategist tried to explain away the problem by saying Walz is “a regular guy against a slick politician.”
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attempted the same explanation, saying Vance was much “slicker,” “more practiced” and a more “professional debate-style speaker.” She then claimed Walz won the debate and the only “bad moment” for Walz was when he was forced to explain why he lied about being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The problem for the strategist and Maddow is that Vance has only been in politics since 2022, while Walz has been in politics since 2006 and has had more debate and interview experience.
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Maddow: JD Vance is a &#8220;slicker&#8221; speaker only because he, who entered politics like four years ago, has more experience speaking in debates than the 12-year-congressman, current governor of Minnesota.
Another MSNBC <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HotTake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HotTake</a> I didn&#8217;t know I needed, but I did. <a href="https://t.co/80eXoGsfal">https://t.co/80eXoGsfal</a>
— Ace of Spades (@AceofSpadesHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/AceofSpadesHQ/status/1841324448156115199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Other media outlets also called the debate for Vance, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0863ry88o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including the BBC</a>, which said: “the even-tempered, policy-focused debate, with few political body blows, probably served Vance &#8211; a polished public speaker &#8211; best in the end.”
Slate also <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/vp-debate-winner-vance-walz-aca-climate-change-china-abortion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that “Vance won the debate,” though it went on to claim Walz had the best clip of the night during a question about January 6, 2021.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/vice-presidential-debate-takeaways-vance-walz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that “Walz struggled,” while The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/politics/vp-debate-takeaways-vance-walz.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>: “Mr. Vance looked polished throughout. Mr. Walz spoke haltingly, especially at the start, taking a series of verbal stutter-steps before getting to his point.”
Whether or not these performances will help or hurt their respective campaigns remains to be seen.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-pollster-predicts-vances-debate-performance-will-sway-undecided-voters">Top Pollster Predicts Vance&#8217;s Debate Performance Will Sway Undecided Voters</a>

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Employees at CBS News and CNN immediately attacked former President Donald Trump just moments after a man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-ransack-home-of-20-year-old-suspected-shooter-who-donated-to-liberal-org-on-bidens-inauguration-day?topStoryPosition=2">donated</a> to far-left causes from shooting former President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania in what federal law enforcement officials have officially labeled an assassination attempt.
The suspect — identified by the FBI as 20-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks — was shot and killed after he fired multiple rounds at Trump, one of which was literally an inch from being a potentially fatal hit. At least one Trump supporter in the crowd was killed and two more were seriously injured during the attack, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement.
As shots rang out, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-stops-secret-service-from-carrying-him-off-raises-fist-and-tells-supporters-fight-fight-fight">grabbed</a> his ear — a journalist captured a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-captures-photo-of-bullet-whizzing-past-trumps-head-after-it-hit-his-ear">photograph</a> of the bullet after it hit Trump and traveled past his head — and Secret Service shouted &#8220;Get down! Get down! Get down!&#8221;
Trump dropped to the ground as he was tackled by Secret Service until Matthew was neutralized by law enforcement.
Before they moved him off the stage, Trump yelled at the agents: “Wait! Wait! Wait!” Then looking at the thousands of supporters who showed up, he raised his fist and shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Immediately following Trump&#8217;s inspiring remarks to the crowd, CNN&#8217;s Jamie Gangel said: &#8220;I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd, because of all of the heated rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;And that is that after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, &#8216;Fight! Fight! Fight!&#8217;,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;I think what we&#8217;re hearing people is that&#8217;s not the message that we want to be sending right now. We want to tamp it down.&#8221;
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CNN&#8217;s Jamie Gangel attacks Trump for saying &#8220;Fight! Fight! Fight!&#8221; after someone tried to murder him.
Literally, she complains about what he did 5 seconds after he was shot
&#8220;That&#8217;s not the message that we want to being sending right now. We want to tamp it down&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/GHhU2lLI2Z">pic.twitter.com/GHhU2lLI2Z</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1812317905935020049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
CBS News&#8217; Margaret Brennan, a highly partisan news host, fumed on television that Trump did not tell people to calm down in a statement he released a little while after the incident.
&#8220;He is recovering from these injuries now, this was a traumatic event no doubt for him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation.&#8221;
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Trump&#39;s just been shot, and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan disparages him for not telling his followers to lower the temperature. Unbelievable. <a href="https://t.co/97R2FG97gG">pic.twitter.com/97R2FG97gG</a>
&mdash; Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1812295108160553180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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CBS News analyst Samantha Vinograd, who is a highly partisan former Obama administration official, claimed that &#8220;the biggest that officials are telling me tonight is in the form of retaliatory violence.&#8221;
Brennan jumped in and condemned Republicans for daring to be mad that the leader of the party was nearly assassinated.
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On CBS, Margaret Brennan and Samantha Vinograd talk up &quot;retaliatory violence&quot; from right-wingers, and then we hear of January 6. Knew this line was coming&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/JO9572UlXn">pic.twitter.com/JO9572UlXn</a>
&mdash; Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1812299001678508058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On ABC, the news anchors listed off reasons why Trump and his supports &#8220;contributed to this violent rhetoric.
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Unreal. It took less than 24 hours for ABC to start blaming Trump for last night.
“President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric…”
“And let’s remember January 6th…” <a href="https://t.co/I0M7g7byUX">pic.twitter.com/I0M7g7byUX</a>
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) <a href="https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1812479165402124579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2024</a></blockquote>

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CBS News, CNN Attack Trump For What He Said Immediately After He Got Shot

On Monday, author and TV host Mark Levin blistered critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking on President Biden and his anti-Israel regime, Biden’s Democratic Party, and the legacy media, as well as the few Republicans who have taken sides against the prime minister.
Writing on Twitter, Levin started, “I am fed up with these attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu by the Biden regime, the Democrat Party, and the American Al Jazeera media. I am fed up with the attacks from certain Republican operatives, who are trying to make a buck off the Arab countries, such as Qatar and others.”
After praising Netanyahu for his leadership in the face of his enemies, both foreign and domestic, Levin continued: “We have never, ever seen the kind of organized international campaign, headquartered in our Oval Office and State Department, and including NGOs and Democrat Party donors, target any ally head of state as we are witnessing today. It is disgusting. It is appalling.”
“And the demands that Netanyahu abandon his country&#8217;s sovereignty and well-being at the say-so of the Biden regime and its surrogates is unconscionable. Biden continues to send (Secretary of State Antony) Blinken and (National Security Advisor Jake) Sullivan to Israel to plot against its government.”
“He has put relentless pressure on Israel to effectively surrender to the terrorists who surround it,” Levin noted. “He has told Israel it must not defeat Hamas (what is victory, they ask!), they must not attack Hezbollah (which is constantly firing rockets and drones into Israel, attacking its people and infrastructure), he is using the UN and foreign governments to pressure Israel, and he has stated over and over again that after Israel surrenders to it all, he will force upon Israel a final solution, which Biden calls a two-state solution, requiring Israel to abandon 30% of its country (its ancestral homeland in Judea and Samaria) to the very people who are trying to annihilate it, making it impossible for Israel to defend itself.”
Levin asserted that Netanyahu refuses to bow to Biden because he knows “this would ultimately destroy Israel.” Then Levin turned to Israel’s deadly enemy Iran and Biden’s part in helping Iran against Israel: “He (Netanyahu) is leading his country in an incredibly successful war started by Iran and its surrogate, Hamas, and funded by the Biden regime, which has enabled Iran to rebuild its economy, rearm itself and its terrorist puppets, and virtually complete its nuclear program. In fact, it is Biden who has undermined Israel&#8217;s efforts, prolonged the war and increased casualties, including the deaths of brave IDF soldiers (Biden never mentions them).”
“The Biden regime&#8217;s actions and public statements, as well as its diplomacy and coordination with a supportive media, have resulted in the spread of Jew-hatred not only in the United States, but throughout the world, the likes of which we have never seen in our own country and is reminiscent of the 1930s in Europe. And Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the rest of Terrorism, Inc., are more emboldened than ever. “
“Millions of us, patriotic Americans, Jew and Gentile alike, stand with Benjamin Netanyahu and the state of Israel,” Levin declared. “There is a reason both are extremely popular and supported in the United States, despite all the saboteurs, haters, and self-aggrandizers. And we will not be moved. We know good from evil. We know right from wrong. We know that those who hate Israel hate us, both here at home and abroad. We know that the attacks on Netanyahu are intended as attacks on Israel.”
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“We want terrorism and terrorists destroyed, period, as we have suffered from horrendous acts of terrorism and may well in the future,” he wrote. “We know that Israel is fighting not just for its own survival but for us and our country too. The Islamists tell us again and again, openly, in writing, in speeches, with mission statements, and acts of terrorism, that they intend to destroy we, the people of the United States and, in fact, the entire western world. We have no patience for those who undermine Israel so they can profit from appeasing the Arab countries.”
“We admire Netanyahu and the Israeli people. And we also know that the war on Netanyahu is led by those who wish Israel ill. The self-appointed elitists in and out of our government, as well as those in foreign capitals around the world, do not represent us. Indeed, they hate us. But we will not be fooled, silenced, or intimidated by any of them or any of this. We stand with Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu,” he concluded.
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WE STAND WITH ISRAEL AND BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
I am fed up with these attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu by the Biden regime, the Democrat Party, and the American Al Jazeera media. I am fed up with the attacks from certain Republican operatives, who are trying to make a buck off the…
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1800235230017593421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mark Levin Hammers Critics Of Netanyahu, Targets Biden, Democrats, Legacy Media

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CNN was slammed online after a Sunday article advising parents to take their four-year-olds seriously when they say they are transgender.
&#8220;If your kid just told you they&#8217;re trans, here&#8217;s what you should know,&#8221; the article&#8217;s headline reads.
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/02/health/transgender-children-parenting-advice-wellness/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> cites a Methodist pastor who said her four-year-old daughter told her that she &#8220;told God when I was a star in the sky that I was a boy, but God made me a girl.&#8221; The four-year-old had &#8220;preferred typical boys’ clothes, hairstyles and activities since preschool.&#8221;
Another mother &#8220;gave birth to a baby she thought was a boy,&#8221; but the child &#8220;came out&#8221; as non-binary at age 8 and began identifying as a girl at age 10, the article says. That mother is now co-lead for the group Families United for Trans Rights.
The article cites Nova Bright-Williams, a trans-identifying man at the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that says it works to prevent LGBT youth suicides.
“One of the hardest things for us to do as parents is pause when that vision gets interrupted and really listen to what our kiddos are saying to us,” Bright-Williams said.
Bright-Williams repeated the common claim that affirming children’s new gender identities helps prevent their suicides. Several recent studies have <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101898/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that social transition does not necessarily improve children’s and teens’ mental health.
&#8220;Rejecting them could not only cause hurt and anger but also could ruin chances of a long-term relationship,&#8221; the article warns. &#8220;Therefore, when your child tells you they’re trans, your first response should be to thank them for sharing and learning about their experience, Bright-Williams said. Say you want to get to know more about this part of who they are. Ask how long they’ve known this about themselves, who else they’ve shared their identity with and how you can support them.&#8221;
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Parenting advice from ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩: if your 4-year-old starts talking about gender identity, you need to listen. To the four-year-old. Who is 4. Years old. <a href="https://t.co/Qq4pbmRkvI">https://t.co/Qq4pbmRkvI</a>
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1797349639244706283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Must-read on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>: &#8220;If your kid just told you they’re trans, here’s what you should know&#8221;
(take note, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a>, this is how to report on trans youth accurately and without bias) <a href="https://t.co/luheXqw2vP">https://t.co/luheXqw2vP</a>
— GLAAD (@glaad) <a href="https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1797704077792678063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Social media users quickly criticized CNN for recommending parents push their small children toward a gender transition.
Many X users <a href="https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/06/03/cnn-gives-advice-to-parents-whose-4-year-olds-come-out-as-trans-n2396935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocked</a> the left-leaning outlet for recommending parents take their small children&#8217;s gender identity declarations seriously.
&#8220;Parenting advice from CNN⁩: if your 4-year-old starts talking about gender identity, you need to listen. To the four-year-old. Who is 4. Years old,&#8221; posted conservative commentator Joel Pollak.
&#8220;My nieces are 4 years old. Guess what they want to do? Listen to Disney princesses and play with their toys. Why? BECAUSE THEY’RE 4 YEARS OLD,&#8221; posted another X user.
Others said that ironically, they agreed with CNN that parents should listen if their children say they are transgender — they should listen so they can figure out how their kids were exposed to gender ideology.
&#8220;If your [4-year-old] talks about gender identity, find out who has been talking to your [4-year-old] and stop it,&#8221; wrote one X user.
&#8220;If they&#8217;re bringing it up, it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re being indoctrinated by it at school. Therefore it is time to go directly to the school and find out what is being taught because as we found out during covid, what we think is being taught and what is actually being taught are not the same,&#8221; wrote another user.
The article also claims that it is &#8220;rare&#8221; for children to detransition, or stop identifying as transgender, and it promotes puberty blockers as a way to relieve children&#8217;s gender distress by &#8220;temporarily&#8221; pausing puberty. One parent realized that &#8220;withholding them would not be a neutral decision, since puberty is permanent — which could have negative consequences for a child who doesn’t identify with that body,&#8221; the article says.
Puberty blockers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-doctors-in-transgender-field-admit-puberty-blockers-arent-so-reversible-report">can have</a> profound <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">effects</a> on bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues.
GLAAD, which monitors LGBT media coverage, praised the article calling it a &#8220;must-read&#8221; and took the opportunity to chide The New York Times, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> opinion articles skeptical of medical transition for children.
&#8220;Take note, @NYTimes, this is how to report on trans youth accurately and without bias,&#8221; GLAAD posted on X.

CNN Encourages Parents To Accept 4-Year-Olds’ Gender Identities, Gets Slammed Online

CNN Encourages Parents To Accept 4-Year-Olds' Gender Identities, Gets Slammed Online

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